Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... once again may I plant the great fan on her corn - heap , while she stands smiling by , Demeter of the threshing floor , with sheaves and poppies in her hands ' ( Theocritus , vii . 155–157 ) . This feast is made comming from the chacra ...
... once again may I plant the great fan on her corn - heap , while she stands smiling by , Demeter of the threshing floor , with sheaves and poppies in her hands ' ( Theocritus , vii . 155–157 ) . This feast is made comming from the chacra ...
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... once existed among the ancestors of the Greeks . Our method , then , is to compare the seem- ingly meaningless customs or manners of civilised races with the similar customs and manners which exist among the uncivilised and still retain ...
... once existed among the ancestors of the Greeks . Our method , then , is to compare the seem- ingly meaningless customs or manners of civilised races with the similar customs and manners which exist among the uncivilised and still retain ...
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... the Royal Institution , Mr. Tylor once exhibited a bull - roarer . At first it did nothing particular when it was whirled round , and the audience began to fear that the experiment was like those chemical 30 CUSTOM AND MYTH .
... the Royal Institution , Mr. Tylor once exhibited a bull - roarer . At first it did nothing particular when it was whirled round , and the audience began to fear that the experiment was like those chemical 30 CUSTOM AND MYTH .
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... once for all , and carried abroad over the world by wandering races , or handed on from one people and tribe to another ? Or is the bull - roarer a toy that might be accidentally hit on in any country where men can sharpen wood and ...
... once for all , and carried abroad over the world by wandering races , or handed on from one people and tribe to another ? Or is the bull - roarer a toy that might be accidentally hit on in any country where men can sharpen wood and ...
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... once more we find it employed as a summons to the mysteries . We do not learn , however , that women in Zuni are forbidden to look upon the bull - roarer . Finally , the South African evidence , which is supplied by letters from a ...
... once more we find it employed as a summons to the mysteries . We do not learn , however , that women in Zuni are forbidden to look upon the bull - roarer . Finally , the South African evidence , which is supplied by letters from a ...
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Página 185 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Página 150 - Therewith the slayer of Argos gave me the plant that he had plucked from the ground, and he showed me the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible.